Download and installing
VaeX is available as binary for OSX and Linux, without any dependencies. See the next section how to get it. For development, other plaforms, or for more optimized compiling of the source, you may want to build from source.
Download the binary
The binary should be fully self contained, it should not need any other software.
OSX (10.7 is tested):
Linux:
Simpy unpack the tarball and run it like:
$ tar vaex-0.2.1-linux.tar.gz
$ ./vaex-0.2.1/vaex